Well, we are finally on our way. We went to vote this morning then we went to see Sandy’s Mum. Came home and packed my bag. Only half full (or empty) which ever way you want to interpret it.
The limousine came and picked us up at 2.15pm. Laura (Helen’s daughter) came in her car as Jacinta and James (Wally & Helen’s Grandchildren) and Jessica (a friend of Jacinta’s) were in the limo with Wally & Helen. Laura took them back home to Figtree.
We had our bottle on the way & the 2 men had their beers. We got to the airport at 3.30pm. Checked our bags in and got our seats. We had coffee at Jazz at the airport then wandered around to gate 60 for our flight.
The plane was packed. Not a spare seat to be had. We have 4 seats in the middle (well sort off, we had DEF and H ) there was another man in seat G and after a bit of sweet talk he swapped seats with Sandy and we settled in for the flight. There are not many seats behind us. Sandy & Wally have the aisle seats and Helen & me are in the middle. We have 7522kms to Bangkok. It should take about 8.48 hours.
We are now on our way to fly over Katherine. At the moment we have 5.48 hours to Bangkok and 5239kms.
It is now 10pm and we are due in Bangkok at 1am. I don’t think we will sleep much on this flight but I’m sure we will on the next leg to Dubai.
It is such a long flight. We had our tea which was either a choice of Lamb Hotpot with vegetables or Pappardelle Pasta with sautéed mushrooms, Banana Cake, Cheese & Biscuits & tea or coffee (and of course our drinks).
We then settled down for the night, or tried to. It is very hard to sleep on a plane. I think we had about ¾ hour in all. We arrived in Bangkok but we didn’t get off the plane. It was raining and we only had an hour to kill. By the time we had got off (with all our personal belongings) we would have had to go back through and get on the plane again.
You always meet someone no matter where you go. While we were waiting for the plane to take off again, Sandy went for a short walk in the plane and he met Claire Elliott who I used to work with at QBE. Claire was going home to Manchester for 2 weeks to see her parents. Her partner Brad was not with. I ended up going to see her then. She was well but tired like us.
We sat in the same seats again. Some passengers got off and new ones came on board.
It was another long flight. We tried to sleep again but to no avail.
When we got to Dubai, the airport was very busy. We walked around and had a look at things as we had 5 hours to wait until we got our plane again. Ended up having something to eat and then sat around and waited. And waited. And waited. We finally got our flight to Istanbul.
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